Online System Argumente: a Result of Design Based Research at UNAM

Argumente is an online system that was created to strengthen written argumentation skills. This system was built within the framework of a research project that was carried out with students and professors of the Open and Distance Education System (SUAyED), at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and with the intention of implementing the Dialogue Design System written argumentation model, with distance education students. This work describes the research approach used to design, develop and evaluate the Argumente system, which it considered throughout the process both, linking it with previous results of the argumentation methodology implemented, as well as with the learning and user experience, of the different types of users. This implied the building of a broad and comprehensive work team, that worked collaboratively throughout the process. In this way, what was obtained was not only an online system to exercise written argumentation and a teaching and learning proposal that promotes the development of argumentative skills, but it also strengthened an educational research method, focused on the design of educational technology and collaborative work.